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Month: April 2015
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I'd start filling up gallon jugs today: At a time when Californians need to be conserving water the most, many are doing the opposite: Water use in the midst of a severe and worsening drought declined by only 2.8 percent in February. The dismal figure — brought about in part by some Southern Californians actually…
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"March Sadness": We all look forward to One Shining Moment every year to celebrate the great moments of March Madness… but there’s another side to this great event. A darker, more depressing, more sorrowful side as well. 67 teams and hundreds of players and thousands of fans saw their dreams of becoming a champion die…
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Meredith Fowlie: The use of moral suasion to encourage conservation is not unique to California. Public appeals for reductions in energy and water use are ubiquitous. And it is easy to see why. For political and jurisdictional reasons, it is often easier to mount a conservation campaign than raise energy or water prices in times…
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"America's finest news source": With residents struggling to adjust to newly imposed restrictions on water usage amid the state’s continuing drought, California officials assured citizens Monday there are still plenty of other resources available for them to waste. “Although we as a state must take serious and difficult steps to conserve water, we want to…
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From the comments: There was another "EnvEcon" (no dash) bracket at ESPN (http://games.espn.go.com/tournament-challenge-bracket/2015/en/group?groupID=347085) with 14 more brackets. Probably some, like me, mistakenly joined that group. Prof. Heintzelman might want a shot at glory this year, as he'd be in fourth place in Env-Econ this year … with a shot at #1 if Duke wins. Congrats to…
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From the RESECON list: Friday, October 9, 2015 – 9:00am to Saturday, October 10, 2015 – 5:00pm SEEPAC will be hosting a two day workshop October 9-10 on Advances in the Economics of Climate Change. Attendance is by invitation only. Objectives: The purpose of the workshop is to identify and advance empirical and theoretical economic methods for analyzing…
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“Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it … he who doesn't … pays it.” – Albert Einstein Yesterday, in my Principles of Food and Resource Economics class (135 students–mostly freshmanpeople and sophomores), I was talking about cost-benefit analysis. In particular, I was talking about comparing benefits…
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Former Hewlett-Packard CEO and potential Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina is blaming California’s water crisis on “liberal environmentalists” who are “willing to sacrifice other people’s lives and livelihoods at the altar of their ideology.” “With different policies over the last 20 years, all of this could be avoided,” Ms. Fiorina said in an interview Monday…
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My iPhone 5c (which I've learned is a notoriously crappy phone) stopped telling time accurately back before Christmas. The clock is slow, very slow. Like, when I took this screenshot it was not 12:42 pm. When it first started my alarm wouldn't go off and I'd oversleep in the morning. I send time-sensitive text messages…
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It appears as if Tim won the Env-Econ tournament challenge. We only had a few entrants which I blame on Tim for going on vacation and not doing his regular job of recruiting entrants. As the winner, Tim gets to make fun of Tim and The Ohio State University all year long! I'm pulling for…
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